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30 yrs designing games and teaching game design. Proponent of Design Thinking as an approach to all of life's problems and using games as part of education. Lived an interesting life so far, tried to be a nice person for most of it.
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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem He is President. Not a King. He can't rule by decree. He is an employee. He is a guest at the White House - our nation's house. It isn't his. It doesn't belong to him. Neither does the Presidency. He is a temporary worker. No more. No less. He is criminal 34 times...

A very big step in the transition from republic to dictatorship. Removing checks and balances with the stroke of a pen, right out in the open.

Reading between the lines: "It's so much harder to operate within the law and in the light! Stop watching me, I have thuggery to do that even i dont think is legal. These 'rights' are threatening what should be a cushy well paying job! Make em stop!"

@bsky.app I’m developing DissentHub, an open-source, decentralized platform for activists to organize securely, resist censorship, and stay protected from surveillance. We’re looking for collaborators! Get in touch!

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social Letters From An American newsletter. This belongs on a billboard in every city and town in America.

Reposting to help spread the word on this very cool group. This is what effective progress looks like.

The subject of this report is the tyrant who seems to be directing the Trump administration and the GOP. Forget soc media account canceling, upper story defenestration of critics is the direction we are headed.

In another thread I commented my opinion that as a willing sex partner to Musk, she is simply another villain not deserving of praise. Thanks @nothoodlum.bsky.social for surfacing validation of that. Hope both of them lose.